Automobile motor-hood fastener



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l C. HART. Auomolsl LE MoToR Hoon FASTENER.

FILED JUNE I4, 1920.

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AUTOMOBLE `MIU'EGR-H001) FASTENER.

Application `filed .Tune 14,

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Be it known that l, limi C. HART, a citizen of the United States, residing at Buhl, in the county of Twin Falls and State of Idaho.l have invented a new and useful Automobile Motorllood Fastener, of which the following is a specification. y

My invention relates to improvements in motor-hood fasteners and relates to means to automatically lock the motor-hood of an automobil-e in a seated position.

@ne object of the invention is to provide a means for locking a motor-hood which is concealed by the hood when the hood is closed.

A further object of the invention is to provide a means to yieldingly maintain a motorhood in a seated position and simultaneously yieldingly maintain the hood against its seat.

With these and other objects in view reference is now had to the accompanying drawings in which all illustrations are of the fastener placed at the rear left hand corner of the motor, and in which Fig. 1 is a rear elevation of the fastener showing hood in the closed position;

Fig. 1a is a front elevation of a handle;

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the fastener showing the hood disengaged from the latch and partly open, and the latch in a receiving position;

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the fastener;

Fig. 31 is a partial sectionalelevation of the yielding means and housing;

Fig. 3b is a side elevation of the latch Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a shouldered bolt' 3d is a front elevation of a bearing having a notched or grooved face; and

Fig. 4 is a plan view of the device.

Having reference to the drawings like numerals and characters refer to like parts throughout the several views and the numeral'l refers to a standard provided with a suitable foot 19 and terminating at its upper end in a bearing toreceive a bolt 5. The bearing is faced at a and the face is provided with grooves Z2 and y0 respectively which reg ister with a raised portion CZ in the bearing end e of the barrel 2 which in turn is rotatably mounted on the bolt 5.

The barrel is cylindrical in form and has an eye 8 rigidly attached to its lower eXtremf ity and depends from the bolt` 5 so that it may oscillate from above within the range permitted by the raised portion mentioned 1920.` lSerial No. $8,793.

and the grooves in the face of the bearing into which the raised portion seats when pressed therein by the spring 7.

A hollow cylinder 3, also provided with an eye g, is slidably mounted in the barrel and the two enclose a spring 20 which acts normallyto press the two apart.

A cam shaped latch 4 is movably attached in the eye (7 by means of the bolt 7 and isv also movably attached to'the eye S by means of the lilik G in a manner to present the open side of the latch upward when the barrel is oscillated into the receiving position shown in Fig. 2.

Attached to the motor hood 15 is a brace 16 which carries a cross bar 7L suitably positioned to receive the latch when nearing the closed position and, as the latch oscillates backward, to register with the motor-hood when `it is closed, as shown in Fig. 1.

The cross bar extends from and is supported by the braces 14C and 16 and terminates in a bearing at its outer end upon which is rotatably mounted a roller 11 so positioned to bear against the hood seat 12 and thus form a guide to keep the cross bar in `registerable position with the latch 4t. The

`rod 10 connects the cross bar and the bearing and maintains them the proper distance apart.

ln use the standard is suitably attached to the automobile so that the latch, when in the receiving position, projects outward in a position to receive the cross `bar upon its descent. As the crossbar descends to the closing position it is engaged by the latch which is now depressed with the descending cross bar, and which pressing on the latch rotates it on the bolt 7 until the hook y' in turn registers against the cross bar. The latch now oscillates through the barrel backward and draws the motor-hood against the car as the roller passes the point 7c of the hood seat 12. The latch has now passed the center, beneath the bolt 5, and the tension of the spring 20 maintains the latch in this position and at the same time holds the motor-hood substantially against its seat.

A handle 18 is suitably attached to the outside of the motor-hood 15 by means of the brace 17.

Having thus described my invention, l

grooved face, a depending barrel rotatably mounted .in said bearing and provided with raised portions to register With the grooves of said face, means yieldingly maintaining f said raised portion in register with one of said grooves, and engageable With the other of said grooves when said barrel is oscillated, an eye attached to the lower extremity of said barrel, a cylinder slidably mounted in 

